These Are the 5 Brands Rich Guys Buy Most

A new study by the Luxury Institute has found that men with lots of discretionary income really, really like Calvin Klein and the wares created by its menswear designer Italo Zuchelli. Of 42 high-end purveyors of men's clothes—including Brunello Cucinelli, Alexander McQueen, and Valentino—Calvin Klein is at the top of the list for brands that rich dudes have purchased something from in the past year.

Part of what makes Calvin so successful is its name recognition: the study also found that men of means are more familiar with Calvin Klein than any other brand, which means putting Kendall Jenner and Justin Bieber in all those ads is working.

The rest of the top five brands that rich guys like to buy includes Ralph Lauren, Hugo Boss, Burberry, and Giorgio Armani. Ralph Lauren is the brand that these men are most likely to think about first the next time they go shopping, and Armani is among the companies whose clothes are viewed as actually being worth their high prices.

To find out all of this, the Luxury Institute surveyed over 3,900 men from the United States, the United Kingdom, China, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan who had to meet different income requirements: men in America and China, for example, had to pull in a salary around $150,000 a year to take the questionnaire, but Brits only needed to bring in $85,000.

The results of the survey are a clear indication that regardless of what they make, wealthy guys aren't afraid to spend money on luxe clothing—so long as it comes from a brand with an established track record of making high-quality stuff. And here we thought half the fun of fashion was taking risks.

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